The Muskegon Traction Company raised the ride fare by 1 cent in August of 1919, it began a riot that lasted through the night, destroying streetcars and causing chaos in the city.
Workers refused to pay more than 6 cents per fare ($1.06 in 2023 dollars).
[More here. h/t Pam M.]
The ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ project was under Contract No. NAS 9-1370 and ran from May 22, 1963 through July 31, 1965. It was originally built for Nasa’s Manned Spacecraft Center by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The reason for a test dummy was officials hoped to use it during design and testing of a spacesuits, which might otherwise be painful, tedious or even dangerous for human beings.
The 1965 robot was able to simulate 35 basic human motions and used sensors to gather data on how the human body acted in a pressurized suit – but it never made it off the ground due to its tendency to leak oil.
Only two of these robots were created, the one selling for $80,000 and another that is owned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Original caption:
American-built tank “America”, designed by Professor E.F. Miller of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Photographed in July of 1918.
[Un-colorized image found in this collection.]
Fortunately, this never happened:
[Images – and more – found here.]
Updated to add video. More about the Lincoln Memorial dedication here.
Top: Steel plate sculpture in front of Taylor Hall, purported bullet hole visible.
Bottom: Taylor Hall, colorized via https://palette.fm/ . Sculpture was on opposite side of building, now demolished.
[Previous Kent State posts here.]
Fighting forest fires to save the wildlife… with ICBMs.
NOMICS@%^&*(^*>ALGEBR isn’t taught in school anymore.
Mom is always ready… for something.
From Closer Than We Think, Arthur Radebaugh, 1950s.
[Images found here, via here.]
Oh My Lover, The Chiffons (1963) “Throughout rock and roll history, vocal groups have spent entire careers in search of hit bound melodies and captivating lyrics. In the reverse of that equation, the Chiffons garnered their greatest success because a hit song was in search of a group.” That song was not it. Their cover of Tonight’s The Night was.
The Forger [via Mme. Jujujive].
Hubert Sumlin’s guitar lesson.
34,000 year old lunar calendar.
Ribs and corsets [via Memo Of The Air].
US Army Corps of Engineers Cat Calendar.
Precision trucking in Japan [via Bunkerville].
R.I.P. Gerard Vanderleun (1945-2023).
[Top image: Sketch of unknown ANZAC Infantryman by David Barker, Gallipoli, 1915.]
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